It's all working. The final testing step that remains is replicating the saidit.net database on to the new server to make sure everything works as expected. Hopefully should be just a few days more at most.

This move will be great for the long-term security and functionality of saidit. Thanks to everyone who has donated to help pay for server costs! Saidit is proud to be entirely community funded, and we have you all to thank for it. And to top it all off, the Swiss server is $2/mo cheaper than the one we're currently using in Dallas, so it actually cut our budget down a little bit to make this move as well. Win/win!

Once everything is all tested, a day or two after that I'll make an announcement, and we'll copy again the newest version of the database to make it as recent as possible, then immediately make the switch so saidit.net will point at the swiss server. The DNS changeover may happen instantly, or it may take up to an hour. During this DNS changeover period, things posted to the website will not be saved. I will post to give everyone 24 hours advance notice of when this will happen, but hopefully it'll be at midnight and will only last a few minutes. Then once that's done, we'll be Swiss!

If you want to check out the swiss server for yourself, you can go to www.saidit.dev, but this is just for curiosity's sake. Things posted there will 100% be overwritten by the database replacements in a few days, so don't bother posting or doing anything there, it will be erased.

And if you're wondering, all the posts and comments there are bot-generated by software that came with the reddit open source software. They're kind of funny to read tbh. They're pretty bad in terms of being convincing conversationalists. I think they grab content from the front page of reddit.com at the moment you run the script and just randomly cut it up. But the script makes 50 bot users who all post a few to a dozen random posts and comments, to test out if all the software is working correctly. But what they say is so goofy sometimes, haha

Anyway, thought someone might get a kick out of that behind-the-scenes look while we finish setting things up

Switzerland is not in the EU, so no, saidit is not subject to Europe's speech restriction laws. This is one of the main reasons we chose Switzerland. They are neutral and independent and offer saidit the most freedom of any country, based on our research.

Swissieland signed the Schengen Agreement with the EU. Brussel might wake up on the wrong side of the bed one day and demand speech regulation and force it upon the participants. Swiss voted for EU gun law just recently.